throw
Dictionary
verb
- To change place.
- To change in state or status
- To move through time.
- To be accepted.
- In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To do or be better.
- To take heed.
noun
- The flight of a thrown object.
"What a great throw by the quarterback!"
- The act of throwing something.
"The gambler staked everything on one throw of the dice."
- One's ability to throw.
"He's always had a pretty decent throw."
- A distance travelled; displacement.
"the throw of the piston"
- A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
- A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
"Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw."
- A violent effort.
verb
- To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
"throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider"
- To eject or cause to fall off.
- To move to another position or condition; to displace.
"throw the switch"
- To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- (of a bowler) to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
"If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid-operation exception."
- To intentionally lose a game.
"The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match."
- To confuse or mislead.
"The deliberate red herring threw me at first."
- To send desperately.
"Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle."
- To imprison.
"The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail."
- To organize an event, especially a party.
- To roll (a die or dice).
- To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- To discard.
- To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
- (said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
- To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- To project or send forth.
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
- (of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
- To install (a bridge).
- To twist or turn.
"a thrown nail"
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